Two-phase flow in packed-bed microreactors: Experiments, model and simulations

Chemical Engineering Science

Volumn 73, Issue , 2012, Pages 299-313

  Iliuta, Ion ^a   Hamidipour, Mohsen ^a   Schweich, Daniel ^a,b   Larachi, Faïçal ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^b LGPC CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

2D hydrodynamic model; Liquid holdup; Packed bed microreactors; Pressure gradient; Simulation; Two phase flow

Indexed keywords

AIR-WATER; BOUNDING SURFACES; CAPILLARY FORCE; CORE AREA; DIAMETER RATIO; FLOW EXPERIMENTS; FLOWTHROUGH; GAS VELOCITY; GLASS SPHERES; GLASS TUBES; HIGH POROSITY; HYDRODYNAMIC MODEL; LIQUID FLOW; LIQUID HOLD UPS; LIQUID HOLDUP; LIQUID PHASE; MICRO-REACTOR; MODEL AND SIMULATION; MOMENTUM BALANCE EQUATIONS; MONODISPERSE; NON-UNIFORMITIES; NONUNIFORMITY; PACKED BED MICROREACTORS; RADIAL UNIFORMITIES; SIMULATION; TWO PARTICLES; TWO-DIMENSIONAL HYDRODYNAMICS; TWO-PHASE PRESSURE DROPS;

CAPILLARITY; CAPILLARY TUBES; CHEMICAL REACTORS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EXPERIMENTS; FLUID DYNAMICS; PACKED BEDS; PARTICLE SIZE; POROSITY; PRESSURE DROP; PRESSURE GRADIENT; TWO PHASE FLOW; VELOCITY;

LIQUIDS;

EID: 84857396077     PISSN: 00092509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ces.2012.02.007     Document Type: Article

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